By Jan Brzeski

Non-bank real estate lending has become much more prominent in the wake of the financial crisis as banks pulled back dramatically from this asset class, which played such a large role in causing the crisis. With the U.S. government and regulators injecting hundreds of billions of dollars to avoid a collapse of the financial system, banks and elected officials were understandably cautious about seeing banks return to anything but the safest and most predictable types of real estate loans.

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